Chapter 749: Thirteen Relic Armor
Descending the steps, when I lit the fire trough, a circular stone chamber appeared before our eyes, and everyone stared at the contents of the stone chamber in shock.
In the middle is a circular platform with miniature landscapes, and standing in the stone chamber, you can clearly see the undulating mountains and rivers flowing through them, and there are detailed place names in each place.
"Hetuala!" Tian Ji pointed to the castle on the western edge. "This, the miniature landscape on this platform seems to be a three-dimensional map."
I looked at the place names marked, from Hetuala to the east, there are Tianhua Mountain, Huangyi Mountain, Yingkou Wang'er Mountain, Benxi Tiesha Mountain, and the famous Changbai Mountain, etc., the branches of the Great Liao River pass through the mountain range, and cities fall in it.
"This is a panoramic map of Liaodong before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs!" Turzhan looked at it for a moment and said excitedly. "Qing Taizu banned the Northeast, and at that time, this area was inaccessible, and the Dragon Vein Temple was built somewhere in it."
"It seems that this is the last place of the Holy Palace, and Qing Taizu left the secret of the Dragon Vein Temple on this miniature map, but only marked the ground, but did not clearly indicate the location of the Dragon Vein Temple." Tian Ji said.
"Qing Taizu wanted to point it out, but the problem was that even he didn't know the exact location of the Dragon Vein Temple, all he knew was the general location and area of the temple." Gong Jue said, looking at the map.
"Since this is reserved for Dorgon, I hope he can trace down the Dragon Vein Temple according to the clues, and he should circle the location on the map here." Ye Jiuqing walked around the platform. "But there's nothing on it, don't look at the mountains, rivers and cities here, this area is not small, why didn't Qing Taizu leave a guide?"
"Qing Taizu left this miniature map in the last stone chamber of the Holy Palace, it is not difficult to see that he did not know the location of the Dragon Vein Temple until he died, and he hoped that the person who inherited the secret of the temple could find the location of the temple from this map." Bai Jin said.
"Qing Taizu was far-sighted, and did not hesitate to spend five years to determine the area of the temple from the people who entered and exited Hetuala, since he left this miniature map, it means that Qing Taizu finally determined this range, but why didn't he mark it on the map?" Ye Zhiqiu was at a loss and said.
Bang dang!
A sound from the side interrupted our thoughts, and when we looked back and saw that Xue Xinrou had accidentally bumped into something, we noticed that there was a ring of propped up armor around the perimeter of the platform in the stone chamber.
"Why do you want to leave all this armor here?" I frowned and walked over to one of them. "It doesn't look like it's for decoration."
"There are still signs of felling on it, and many places are old and broken, not only for decoration, but for the armor that was used on the battlefield." Ye Jiuqing said after looking at it for a while.
Qing Taizu will not casually leave inconsequential things in such an important place, these armors must have some special meaning, I carefully looked at the armor in front of me, they are all tops and bottoms, blue ground herringbone brocade, stone blue satin, moon white silk, copper gold-plated nails.
The armor is made of iron, the left and right shoulder pads, the upper and lower steel blades are stacked layer by layer, and a round heart guard is hung on the chest in front of the jacket.
"This is the chain brocade armor of the Manchurian, look at the pattern on it, it is worn by the generals." Ye Zhiqiu's brows furrowed slightly.
"One, two, three......" Xue Xinrou looked around and counted in her mouth. Thirteen, no more, no less, just thirteen here. ”
"Thirteen?!" Turzhan was stunned, walked to one of the armors, touched it with his hand, and then looked back at the other armors in the stone chamber, and was suddenly shocked, and actually knelt on the ground and bowed in fear.
"He, what is he doing here?" Tian Ji asked confusedly.
"Not thirteen." The palace lord said loudly from directly east of the stone chamber. "There's one more here."
We hurriedly walked over, the armor is also chain brocade armor, but it is completely different from the other thirteen pairs of colors, this set of cotton armor is made of stone blue satin fabric, silk cotton inside, the whole body is nailed with gilt copper bubble nails, the armor is equipped with a copper plate shoulder pad on each shoulder, each armpit is tied with a cloud-shaped armpit guard, and the abdomen wears a trapezoidal belly guard.
There are patterns such as auspicious clouds and halberds on the armor, which makes the whole set of armor extraordinarily supreme and majestic.
"Could it be that this is the rumored thirteen remnants of the armor that followed the Qing Taizu to raise troops!" Ye Zhiqiu was taken aback and said. "Later, these thirteen pieces of armor and the brocade armor of Qing Taizu were offered as holy relics by the Manchurians, but for a long time, no one knew the whereabouts of the thirteen armors, and it turned out that they had been hidden here."
"Then it makes sense, the thirteen relics represent the rise of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Taizu left these armors here with the intention of letting the thirteen relics protect the Dragon Vein Temple." Xue Xinrou said.
Turzhan looked pious, next to the first one to kneel down to worship the relict armor, he is a Manchurian, now he sees the ancestor relics of course excited, but when he worships the brocade armor worn by the Qing Taizu, Turzhan suddenly has a trace of doubt on his face.
I saw him get up and bow down repeatedly, his brows furrowed more and more, and he folded back to the other armor, and crossed his waist to check something: "Come and see, there is something on the armor." ”
As soon as we heard this, we hurriedly walked to Turzhan's side, he pointed to the bottom of one of the armors, which was covered with layers of iron sheets, and the field chicken wiped the dust off it, and looked at it for a long time and wondered: "What do you see?" Why didn't I see it? ”
Turzhan pointed to one of the pieces of iron, and his expression was also surprised: "Can't you see? ”
We poked our heads over, and there was nothing on the smoothed piece of iron.
"What do you see?" Bai Jinye asked with a blank face.
"There's numbers on it, how can you not see it?" Turzhan was a little anxious.
Turzhan was still kneeling on the ground, I looked at him condescendingly, suddenly thought of something, slowly crouched down, and when I looked up from below, two numbers were faintly displayed on the piece of iron from the angle of looking up.
14 and 9.
"Squat, you have to crouch to see." I said to the others.
According to this method, we found a total of thirteen different sets of numbers on other armor, Xue Xinrou copied it in the notebook, looked at it for a long time, and was at a loss and said: "What does this mean, why are there these numbers on the armor?" ”
"I checked all the armor just now, and the iron sheet with the number should have been added later, and it has undergone special treatment, it can be seen that Qing Taizu left thirteen relics here, in addition to being a Manchurian holy relic, in addition to being as important as the Dragon Vein Temple in his heart, Qing Taizu should have also left clues on the armor." Ye Zhiqiu said.
"It's a shame that he came up with it, who can find such a clue." Tian Ji smiled bitterly.
"As long as it is a Manchurian, it will definitely be found that the Qing Taizu did not expect others to come here, the person he hoped to find the Holy Palace was Dolgon, even if the emperor of the Qing Dynasty came here, he would bow down when he saw the thirteen relics." Bai Jin said.
"Qing Taizu is using this method to pass on clues, ordinary people will not bow down to these broken armor, but Dolgon will, only with the posture of kneeling can you see the numbers hidden in the iron sheet." I nodded.
"In this way, these numbers were left by Qing Taizu to Dolgon, so it can be seen that these thirteen sets of numbers should also be related to the Dragon Vein Temple." Xue Xinrou said.
"But the question is, what do these thirteen sets of numbers mean?" Ye Jiuqing frowned.
"Coordinates?" Tian Ji scratched his head and pointed to the miniature map on the platform. "The area of the temple is not marked on the map, do you think these numbers are the coordinates used to mark them?"
"If it's coordinates, only a set of numbers is enough, but we found thirteen places, besides, when Qing Taizu built the Holy Palace, there were no coordinates at all." Ye Zhiqiu glanced at Tian Ji.
"Could it be a password...... "Gong Jue bowed his head and pondered. Qing Taizu would definitely leave the area where the temple was located, but he was worried that the secret would be known to outsiders, so he left it in the form of a password to Dorgon. ”
"Just thirteen sets of numbers, what kind of password is this, even if it is, there should always be a password that corresponds to these numbers." Tian Ji said.
"Not to mention, there is indeed such a method to transmit information in the technique, if our speculation is correct, then there is still a thing corresponding to these numbers, it should be in a book with words, and these numbers represent a certain word in the book." The palace lord nodded and said.
"And this book, which corresponds to these numbers, is not available to anyone but Dolgon." I pursed my lips and walked back and forth a few steps. "What is it that only Dorgon has?"
"Sunnah!" Ye Zhiqiu's eyes lit up. "It's a book that no one can see."
"Yes, it is true that the Book of Acts cannot be seen by others, but the problem is that those who can access the Book of Acts can not only be seen by Dolgon, but also by the mausoleum keepers, and the Qing Taizu is so cautious that there will be no mistakes." I shook my head and said.
"Only Dolgon can see ......," Ye Jiuqing touched his chin. In the mind of Qing Taizu, only Dolgon could go to the Holy Palace, and it just so happened that there was one thing in the Holy Palace that was recorded in writing, and no one else could see the contents of it except Dolgon. ”
"Golden Book!" Gong Jue suddenly realized, and hurriedly asked Tian Ji to take out the collected gold book, according to the order of the thirteen relics, with numbers for the gold book, and soon found that the two numbers on the iron sheet, the top represents the number of pages, and the bottom represents the order of the text.
"What does this word translate for?" The palace lord pointed to a Manchu text in the golden book and asked Turzhan.
"Horizontal."
Gong Jue continued to correspond to the second set of numbers: "What about this one word?" ”
"Gang ......" Turzhan's voice fell, and his eyes suddenly widened. Henggang! This is Hetuala's name in Manchu! ”
We were overjoyed when we heard it, it seems that we really found the right way, the palace lord was very excited, corresponding to the thirteen groups of numbers in the whole department, Xue Xinrou copied it in the notebook, when it was best to translate one word, we saw a complete line of words.
Three hundred and thirty miles northeast of Henggang, the temple is hidden!